Starting Fertility Treatment

Need IVF and not sure what happens next? Everyone’s treatment pathway is different but typically the IVF treatment cycle follows these steps.

Taking the first step is the hardest but we are here to help you achieve your long-awaited family. We will be with you every step of the way to offer encouragement, help and support.

Comprehensive Evaluation

The initial consultation with your consultant involves a comprehensive evaluation of your history and medical records. Together with your consultant, you will discuss your fertility assessment.

We encourage both partners to attend this consultation. Any outstanding tests and investigations can be arranged.
The treatment plan could be IUI, IVF, or IVF with ICSI which is where a single sperm is injected directly into the egg for fertilisation. ICSI is used if there are any concerns about fertilisation.

Any tests or screening which may be needed, before or as part of your IVF cycle, will be discussed at this time including semen analysis.

This is an opportunity for you to ask any questions you may have about any part of your treatment.

Starting Treatment

When the consultant has determined the cause of your infertility, you will together discuss the best treatment options. Your treatment programme will be decided jointly with your consultant and be right for you as a couple or single woman.

Our fertility experts prefer to take a staged approach to treatment beginning with the least invasive options followed by more advanced treatments, such as In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) only when necessary.

"Nurses here are all so lovely, very calm and reassuring from arrival through to the treatment and after care. Thank you for all your support."

"Everyone here has been so friendly, caring and personal – thank you. It has made what has been quite an emotional journey so much more bearable. We are not at the end yet but there is nowhere else we would rather be for our treatment. Thank you"

"As we stressed when we saw you, we couldn’t be more pleased with the services that Bath Fertility provides – and not just because we were successful first time with IVF and had two beautiful twins."

"Nurses and medical staff excellent. Both clinically professional and knowledgeable but with a caring and very human manner. They have all made a stressful process much more comfortable."

"Thank you so much to everyone involved. The whole process has been nerve wracking but you all made us feel comfortable and involved every step of the way."

"We are always very impressed by the care, attention and friendliness of staff at the clinic. Their approach instils trust at such an important and emotional time and we have every faith that everything is being done to ensure successful treatment."

"Couldn’t have been a better service and experience. Nurses were all fantastic and I feel very lucky to have been fortunate to attend this particular clinic. Such beautiful people – keep up the good work and many thanks."

"I just wanted to write to thank you so much, from the bottom of our hearts, for all of your help with helping us to conceive. We were thrilled that on our first attempt of IVF under the care of you that we have fallen pregnant."

"We felt extremely well cared for by you and all of your staff at Bath Fertility. We felt so well informed and cared for throughout the whole IVF process."

"We wanted you to know that as professionals ourselves, we were hugely impressed with every stage of our treatment, and all the staff that make it possible. The work you all do is truly amazing – my mother keeps saying “it’s a miracle” and I have to correct her and tell her it’s not a miracle, it’s science!"